I'd prefer not to include Chernobyl since it was literally a catastrophe waiting to happen. A reactor with no containment building, really? Nothing like that ever got built outside the Soviet bloc. Even if included, deaths per gigawatt hour from nuclear barely amount to a rounding error when compared to fossil fuel.
I'd say as things are, coal is just as long term a solution in Japan as the nuclear plants. There just aren't that many workable alternatives. Natgas plants perhaps, but recent investigation suggests that methane leaks in production and distribution are probably enough to render greenhouse gas emissions similar in magnitude to coal. Nuclear power has risks of course. Unfortunately the world has magnified those risks a great deal by collective failure to deploy newer and safer reactor technologies. Case in point: Fukushima Daiichi. Generation I plants with known serious failure modes. There's no earthly reason Gen I plants should still be in operation. For comparison, how many businesses are depending on 1960 era computer systems, and how many people drive 1960 cars as primary transportation?
Apportioning the blame for this, in my opinion divides roughly in thirds between corporate sloth/greed, government fecklessness and societal ignorance/paranoia.
How many people has the nuclear power industry killed exactly? For extra credit, compare against coal which has had to pick up the missing supply in Japan.
What a load of textual diarrhea. A bunch of whining about how dangerous U-233 is, and little else. Hey Alvarez, why don't you go swimming in a coal plant slurry pond, since that's what your disinformative pack of lies has the end result of promoting? At the very least, if you were interested in at least some plausible level of credibility, you wouldn't go using YOUR OWN agenda-laden [toilet] paper as a citation.
Well, to spread across "half of New York", said bomb would have to be of very large explosive yield, and hence by definition, NOT a fizzle. Or have you perfected radiological contamination via glowing fairies riding unicorns through the Manhattan street grid? Do tell.
It would sure be nice to take a few giant whacks at the grotesque manipulation of the interstate commerce clause to allow virtually anything to be federally regulated and mandated. Might need a few $BILLIONS to manage that though.
Aquifers in Minnesota aren't doing all that well (no pun intended) either. My family home is on White Bear Lake, which has become something of a cautionary tale for careless groundwater pumping combined with wetland drainage in order to make $millions for developers and then shaft the people who've lived there for generations.
What? A Ponzi scheme bilks successive waves of investors to enrich the originator and hide the malfeasance from earlier investors. How is that remotely like Kickstarter?
Sure, nothing happens when millions of years' worth of fossilized plants are combusted in the space of a few decades. 100% of that stored energy is converted to useful work, no CO2 is released into the atmosphere, no other pollutants like mercury and uranium either.
I don't have to "believe" anything. I took math, chemistry, physics along the way to an engineering degree. Anyone with even a solid high school education can do the math for themselves.
Which will be argued and opposed by every fallacious means necessary to bury it. Not that most people could even define "oligarchy", or get tolerably close to one for "democracy". For the latter, you're likely to get a definition similar to, "What we have in 'Murica", so the study is clearly wrong, as whatever the existing system is, must by definition be democracy.
+ Small brain. She should have stuck with the plan of showing her tits, being mildly entertaining, and using her mouth mainly for pleasuring male dangly bits.
Great power, great responsibility. Adding features to a piece of software as critical to so much infrastructure needs to be taken ever so seriously. Multiple levels of code audits for starters. Testing/fuzzing. I'm not qualified to do those things, but I still get to clean up the mess left by the whole fiasco.
Maybe because a significant number of male employees would find working in an environment consisting of both genders to be more interesting and potentially more innovative? Monoculture and all that...
That said, I'm a little put off by the monetary reward system described. I hope something is misquoted etc. but don't have time to go dig on my own.
I work in a tech company. The developer staff is about 20% female. Management about 30%. Systems and network engineers 10% (there is one so titled, but given skill level, that is being extremely generous). I hasten to add that my observation of the female developers indicate that they are quite competent. As for management, well, I have longstanding doubts about all of them irrespective of gender.
Overall it seems to me that if a company looks hard, recruits and retains them, there are indeed quality female candidates out there. Maybe that isn't true in all places though.
Your cite mentions $1T in some unspecified "worst case scenario", e.g., simultaneous earthquake/tsunami/terrorist-attack/landslide/zombie-apocalypse. Sorry, not very credible, and certainly not to be conflated with "estimated clean-up costs".
When are people going to understand that these giant companies will ALL sell you, or their own grandmothers, if it will make them $UNIT_OF_CURRENCY. Or if their buddies at $GOVT_AGENCY ask nicely.
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I'd prefer not to include Chernobyl since it was literally a catastrophe waiting to happen. A reactor with no containment building, really? Nothing like that ever got built outside the Soviet bloc. Even if included, deaths per gigawatt hour from nuclear barely amount to a rounding error when compared to fossil fuel.
I'd say as things are, coal is just as long term a solution in Japan as the nuclear plants. There just aren't that many workable alternatives. Natgas plants perhaps, but recent investigation suggests that methane leaks in production and distribution are probably enough to render greenhouse gas emissions similar in magnitude to coal. Nuclear power has risks of course. Unfortunately the world has magnified those risks a great deal by collective failure to deploy newer and safer reactor technologies. Case in point: Fukushima Daiichi. Generation I plants with known serious failure modes. There's no earthly reason Gen I plants should still be in operation. For comparison, how many businesses are depending on 1960 era computer systems, and how many people drive 1960 cars as primary transportation?
Apportioning the blame for this, in my opinion divides roughly in thirds between corporate sloth/greed, government fecklessness and societal ignorance/paranoia.
Great idea. Now all we need are functional law enforcement and criminal justice systems in the countries involved.
How many people has the nuclear power industry killed exactly? For extra credit, compare against coal which has had to pick up the missing supply in Japan.
Well put. If I had mod points right now this would get one.
I'd say Alvarez' use of self-citing in that FUDicle is the truly arrogant thing.
What a load of textual diarrhea. A bunch of whining about how dangerous U-233 is, and little else. Hey Alvarez, why don't you go swimming in a coal plant slurry pond, since that's what your disinformative pack of lies has the end result of promoting? At the very least, if you were interested in at least some plausible level of credibility, you wouldn't go using YOUR OWN agenda-laden [toilet] paper as a citation.
Bottom line: Fuck off.
Well, to spread across "half of New York", said bomb would have to be of very large explosive yield, and hence by definition, NOT a fizzle. Or have you perfected radiological contamination via glowing fairies riding unicorns through the Manhattan street grid? Do tell.
I don't believe you. With such impressive written language skill, "your" clearly an English professor.
It would sure be nice to take a few giant whacks at the grotesque manipulation of the interstate commerce clause to allow virtually anything to be federally regulated and mandated. Might need a few $BILLIONS to manage that though.
Aquifers in Minnesota aren't doing all that well (no pun intended) either. My family home is on White Bear Lake, which has become something of a cautionary tale for careless groundwater pumping combined with wetland drainage in order to make $millions for developers and then shaft the people who've lived there for generations.
Lawyers will have a field day, ergo this clearly ends well for someone.
What? A Ponzi scheme bilks successive waves of investors to enrich the originator and hide the malfeasance from earlier investors. How is that remotely like Kickstarter?
Sure, nothing happens when millions of years' worth of fossilized plants are combusted in the space of a few decades. 100% of that stored energy is converted to useful work, no CO2 is released into the atmosphere, no other pollutants like mercury and uranium either.
I don't have to "believe" anything. I took math, chemistry, physics along the way to an engineering degree. Anyone with even a solid high school education can do the math for themselves.
Ur already there.
Which will be argued and opposed by every fallacious means necessary to bury it. Not that most people could even define "oligarchy", or get tolerably close to one for "democracy". For the latter, you're likely to get a definition similar to, "What we have in 'Murica", so the study is clearly wrong, as whatever the existing system is, must by definition be democracy.
It's a hopeless fight.
At first I read that as "BoSox" fans. That would probably work, too.
Don't forget to make the check payable to mumble...[my-name]...mumble, and address [convenient-country-with-no-US-extradition-treaty].
They're so cute, when they're still little.
+ Small brain. She should have stuck with the plan of showing her tits, being mildly entertaining, and using her mouth mainly for pleasuring male dangly bits.
Great power, great responsibility. Adding features to a piece of software as critical to so much infrastructure needs to be taken ever so seriously. Multiple levels of code audits for starters. Testing/fuzzing. I'm not qualified to do those things, but I still get to clean up the mess left by the whole fiasco.
Maybe because a significant number of male employees would find working in an environment consisting of both genders to be more interesting and potentially more innovative? Monoculture and all that...
That said, I'm a little put off by the monetary reward system described. I hope something is misquoted etc. but don't have time to go dig on my own.
I work in a tech company. The developer staff is about 20% female. Management about 30%. Systems and network engineers 10% (there is one so titled, but given skill level, that is being extremely generous). I hasten to add that my observation of the female developers indicate that they are quite competent. As for management, well, I have longstanding doubts about all of them irrespective of gender.
Overall it seems to me that if a company looks hard, recruits and retains them, there are indeed quality female candidates out there. Maybe that isn't true in all places though.
Your cite mentions $1T in some unspecified "worst case scenario", e.g., simultaneous earthquake/tsunami/terrorist-attack/landslide/zombie-apocalypse. Sorry, not very credible, and certainly not to be conflated with "estimated clean-up costs".
Of course. It's so silly that no other industries ever get subsidized by tax dollars.
For mod points...
When are people going to understand that these giant companies will ALL sell you, or their own grandmothers, if it will make them $UNIT_OF_CURRENCY. Or if their buddies at $GOVT_AGENCY ask nicely.
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